Music: Mrs. Talbott's Gesture

"Not for self-exploitation nor for profit but as a gesture of
international friendliness," there sailed from Manhattan last week on
the S.S. Leviathan the sixty members of the Dayton (Ohio) Westminster
Choir, for a two-month European tour beginning with seven concerts in
England, going then to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and back through southern Germany, Switzerland and France.

Choir Conductor. Dayton, Ohio, as everyone knows, hears the first clang
of more newborn cash registers than any other city in the world. Many
persons have still to be informed, however, that Dayton hears also the
best choral music sung today in the...